How to pass an object from one activity to another on Android

Question

I am trying to work on sending an object of my customer class from one Activity and displaying it in another Activity.

The code for the customer class:

public class Customer {

    private String firstName, lastName, address;
    int age;

    public Customer(String fname, String lname, int age, String address) {

        firstName = fname;
        lastName = lname;
        age = age;
        address = address;
    }

    public String printValues() {

        String data = null;

        data = "First Name :" + firstName + " Last Name :" + lastName
        + " Age : " + age + " Address : " + address;

        return data;
    }
}

I want to send its object from one Activity to another and then display the data on the other Activity.

How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

One option could be letting your custom class implement the Serializable interface and then you can pass object instances in the intent extra using the putExtra(Serializable..) variant of the Intent#putExtra() method.

Actual Code:

In Your Custom Model/Object Class:

public class YourClass implements Serializable {

At other class where using the Custom Model/Class:

//To pass:
intent.putExtra("KEY_NAME", myObject);

myObject is of type "YourClass". Then to retrieve from another activity, use getSerializableExtra get the object using same Key name. And typecast to YourClass is needed:

// To retrieve object in second Activity
myObject = (YourClass) getIntent().getSerializableExtra("KEY_NAME");

Note: Make sure each nested class of your main custom class has implemented Serializable interface to avoid any serialization exceptions. For example:

class MainClass implements Serializable {
    
    public MainClass() {}

    public static class ChildClass implements Serializable {
         
        public ChildClass() {}
    }
}